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<p>Some of the very best film actors of the 21st century – but where do they rank?</p>

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The 60 best actors of 21st-century cinema, ranked

The Independent’s culture team ranks the very best film actors of the century so far

<p>‘Sometimes they’re like an elderly couple, but nothing could ever split them up’: Wallace, Gromit and their Norbot glimpse Feathers McGraw in ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’ </p>

Wallace and Gromit’s makers on the terrifying return of Feathers McGraw: ‘People genuinely hate him’

<p>Lily-Rose Depp in ‘Nosferatu’ – Robert Eggers’s alternative Christmas film </p>

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Nosferatu is unexpectedly the perfect comfort blanket for Christmas

<p>‘For me, the monkey was the only reason to do it’: Robbie Williams, as depicted in the musical biopic ‘Better Man’ </p>

Inside the wild Robbie Williams biopic: ‘It’s sad seeing the monkey do cocaine’

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<p>‘I’ve done all sorts of things, but you just haven’t seen them because they’re often very bad and shown at four in the morning’: Margot Kidder in 1978</p>

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The tragedy and triumph of Superman’s Margot Kidder

As the late actor’s performance in the cult slasher film ‘Black Christmas’ turns 50, Adam White looks back at one of the wildest movie stars of the Seventies, who played Lois Lane, fought the system and took the stigma out of mental illness

<p>‘Tucked away in the margins, perpetually bubbling under’: Tom Waits in the 1989 film ‘Cold Feet’</p>

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How Tom Waits became cinema’s great unsung character actor

The gravelly-voiced musician has worked with many of our best living filmmakers, from the Coen brothers to Paul Thomas Anderson. As he celebrates a milestone birthday, Xan Brooks explores his strange, wonderful second career

Reviews

<p>Monkey business: Jonno Davies as Robbie Williams in ‘Better Man’ </p>

The Robbie Williams chimp biopic works far better than you might think

<p>Dreary and formless: Barry Jenkins’s ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ </p>

The Lion King 2 is a catastrophic waste of Oscar winner Barry Jenkins

Interviews

<p>'The music of “The Lion King” is rooted in African rhythm and harmonies, but I felt like there was a lot of space to play and break new ground’</p>

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Lin-Manuel Miranda: ‘I’m already something no one else is’

<p>Zoe Saldaña: ‘I have an energy, a fire that is very much still alive, and I want to challenge myself’ </p>

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Zoe Saldaña: ‘The Oscars tend to overlook actors using CGI technology’

<p>‘As an actor, I always want to emote and go big, and for this I had to restrain myself a lot’ </p>

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Queer’s Drew Starkey on Daniel Craig: ‘We were so comfortable with our love scenes’

Cate Blanchett: ‘I think my natural state is to dig a little hole underground and burrow in for the winter’

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Cate Blanchett on her wild new film: ‘I can’t talk about the monkey brains – I signed an NDA’

<p>‘Now I do it all – I can play ambassadors and I can play shells’</p>

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Isabella Rossellini: ‘I was afraid to be compared to my mother’

<p>Lorraine Bracco: ‘At 70 years old I feel like I’m still eight'</p>

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Lorraine Bracco: ‘I got the Sopranos script... I was very, very upset’

<p>‘For the longest time, I gave myself value as a human because of my work. So when I potentially saw it ending, I was like, who even am I?’ </p>

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Scream’s Melissa Barrera on her year in Hollywood exile: ‘I felt like my life was over’

<p>‘You go from being a guy writing jokes in your apartment to being in 10 or 15 million homes every week’ </p>

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Paul Reiser: ‘Thanks to Stranger Things, kids don’t know that I’m funny’

Features

<p>Crowe your own way: Russell stars in new supervillain blockbuster ‘Kraven the Hunter' </p>

Comment

What happened to Russell Crowe’s career? Where did it go wrong?

<p>From festive to floppage: ‘Elf’, ‘Home Alone’ and the recent Amazon bomb ‘Red One’ </p>

What killed the Christmas movie?

<p>Ninety-five per cent of imprisoned fathers who take part in Patton’s Date with Dad programme never return to jail once they are freed</p>

Features

In Netflix’s Daughters, dance brings girls and their imprisoned fathers back together

<p>Best in show: Just some of the 15 greatest films of 2024, from ‘Blitz’ and ‘Dune: Part Two’ to ‘La Chimera’ and ‘Perfect Days'</p>

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The 15 best films of 2024, ranked

Flashbacks

<p>Merry X-mas: Sarah Polley, Scott Wolf, Jay Mohr and Katie Holmes in the cult classic ‘Go’ </p>

Features

Go at 25: The making of the coolest Christmas movie of all time

<p>A pop-culture-infused catechism: Linda Fiorentino, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Rock on the poster art for ‘Dogma’ </p>

Features

How the outrageous comedy Dogma became practically impossible to see

<p>Best offence: The tiny stars of the ribald 2004 comedy ‘Team America: World Police’ </p>

Features

How Team America shocked the world (and outraged Sean Penn)

<p>Happy anniversary: Rachel Griffiths (left) and Toni Collette in ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ </p>

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Muriel’s Wedding and its flawed, brilliant heroine at 30

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